You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that need altering.

The girlfriend and I have been going to one recently. I don't find there to be any cheaters and the quiz is really well done with various rounds and ways of scoring. The only draw back is the announcer who can't read what he's got written down or pronounce simple words He then insists on covering it up with some "playful banter"

We have a local one at uni to which we go every week. It's a laugh and a good way to find out about people especially in the first few weeks of uni and the guy checks that people aren't cheating which is good.

Sadly we have rivals in the form of the Quizlamic Extremists who always seem to pip us to the post. We'll get 'em one day.

Me and my mates at uni used to do one every sunday, in fact I met up with them last tuesday for the christmas edition.

Loads of fun, and me and my partner won by a landslide

Useless trivia is something I seem to be good at, and I was especially proud when I was the only one who recognised the photo of the elderly Charlie Chaplin, the dater he died, and that the girl in the photo of Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz was a young Julie Andrews and not Judie Garland.

Me and my mates at uni used to do one every sunday, in fact I met up with them last tuesday for the christmas edition.

Loads of fun, and me and my partner won by a landslide

Useless trivia is something I seem to be good at, and I was especially proud when I was the only one who recognised the photo of the elderly Charlie Chaplin, the dater he died, and that the girl in the photo of Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz was a young Julie Andrews and not Judie Garland.

25th December 1977!

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If I get there early will it be the right time our heaven is just waiting so put your hand into mine.

Every quiz I've been to in the last two years has been ruined by people with smartphones.

This is true. It's really annoying. However, it also makes it more satisfying when you win!

The pub quiz we do puts baskets on the tables for everyone to chuck their phones in (makes a chnage from car keys ) However we had a question the other week which was something about the tube stations in London. Thankfully the missus had her diary on her so we were taking a peek at the Underground Map inside. And we came third.

Me and my mates at uni used to do one every sunday, in fact I met up with them last tuesday for the christmas edition.

Loads of fun, and me and my partner won by a landslide

Useless trivia is something I seem to be good at, and I was especially proud when I was the only one who recognised the photo of the elderly Charlie Chaplin, the dater he died, and that the girl in the photo of Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz was a young Julie Andrews and not Judie Garland.

25th December 1977!

Put your phone away!!!

I used to go to the local football club pub quiz but like people have said, Smart phones have ruined them. Even with people checking for cheats there's still people at it. I think we only won one in my time so maybe I'm just bitter.

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Currahee!

It's a different film. It's a very different film! It's a different shark!

I knew the date of Chaplin's death without looking it up. The fact that he died on Christmas day sticks in my mind, I'm strange like that. I can also tell you that Annie Lennox was born on Christmas day 1954. Georgia Moffett (David Tennant's other half and daughter of Peter Davison) was born on Christmas day 1984. Jimmy Buffett, Sissy Spacek and Dido all share the day with Jesus, too but I'm not sure of their years.

A friend of my mum used to write questions for a pub quiz at the pub my mum worked at. I wrote film questions for him so when I took part in the quiz, I knew most of the answers. We hardly ever won though as it wasn't just a film quiz

Me and my mates at uni used to do one every sunday, in fact I met up with them last tuesday for the christmas edition.

Loads of fun, and me and my partner won by a landslide

Useless trivia is something I seem to be good at, and I was especially proud when I was the only one who recognised the photo of the elderly Charlie Chaplin, the dater he died, and that the girl in the photo of Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz was a young Julie Andrews and not Judie Garland.

I used to go to a weekly pub quiz where we all knew the guy running it, so it was a good laugh, we did spend a lot of time thinking up stupid stuff to wind him up and put him off when he was going over the answers

The one I go to now (different pub), is quite good, alternates between different rounds and usually ends with the winning team going on to a round of play your cards right. They usually switch off the wi-fi router before it starts, so people can't just check the answers on their phone.

One thing I usually get stuck on is a good team-name; so far we've had Team IQ Negative and The Drinking Dead; anyone else got any good/funny team names?

I'm part of the missus' work team at a quiz league that we've won twice in a row! £250 bar tab. It's once a month and it's really well run with about 25 teams each time with rounds of general knowledge, current affairs, random round, wipeout and song intros. We've got a good mix of different ages and specialist knowledge (including a scientist sometimes!).

We've been doing it now for over two years and it's by far the best one I've ever done

I used to go to a weekly pub quiz where we all knew the guy running it, so it was a good laugh, we did spend a lot of time thinking up stupid stuff to wind him up and put him off when he was going over the answers

The one I go to now (different pub), is quite good, alternates between different rounds and usually ends with the winning team going on to a round of play your cards right. They usually switch off the wi-fi router before it starts, so people can't just check the answers on their phone.

One thing I usually get stuck on is a good team-name; so far we've had Team IQ Negative and The Drinking Dead; anyone else got any good/funny team names?

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